Podcasts like Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper

Katherine Rose Halper (born July 11, 1980/1981) is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She is the host of the podcast The Katie Halper Show and co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi.

Halper was born in New York City. She grew up on Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She graduated from the Dalton School, and from Wesleyan University in 2003. She is of Jewish Eastern European ancestry and has described herself as a secular Jew. Her father is a psychiatrist and her mother is an English professor and novelist.

After graduating from Wesleyan, Halper worked as development director for the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), a nonprofit media education center and documentary production house. She also coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and Florida. Halper has also taught history at her alma mater, the Dalton School.